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Ebony tubes interspersed with silver beads, strung on a cord, make this necklace one of Spratling's lightest essays in the wood-and-silver pairing. The alternation of dark ebony with bright metal is the material contrast he favored, the warmth of wood against reflective silver that Morrill links to Jean Puiforcat (Morrill, p. 224).
Strung rather than linked, the necklace shows Spratling treating the two materials as equal beads in a rhythm, ornament built entirely from their alternation.
The design is recorded in Phyllis M. Goddard's Spratling Silver: A Field Guide. Strung wood-and-silver necklaces of this kind survive in modest numbers.
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Ebony Tube Necklace.” Catalog no. MoMS-000896. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-2738
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First Design Period: 1931 - 1946
Silver
